Notices by Matthew Haughey (mathowie@xoxo.zone)

When a family member starts a text chain with 14 other relatives and half them aren’t even in your address book, it brings all the excitement of a Reply-all apocalypse from the business world into your personal life.

@anildash It was kind of amazing that we were both in Minneapolis a month after it happened, I very much still felt his presence everywhere there and you were an incredible guide to all his haunts.

From 2007-2022 I posted 56,000 tweets to Twitter before I quit forever. I had three different backups saved as json and 3Gb of images I posted.

I saved it all to a directory and asked Claude to make me a standalone web page for me in a few minutes and it's really incredible.

This is the kind of tedious single-user kind of task I had put off for the last ten years. The three giant JSON blobs were all different formats, the images folder was a mishmash of 256SHA hash file names and I wanted to someday be able to search any of my old tweets and find them, and now I can.

I'm honestly amazed that in less than ten minutes Claude could grind through my local directory of files and produce a webpage that runs on its own with SQLite and it does exactly what I always wanted. It indexed 2Gb of images and mapped them to tweets in less than a minute. Truly remarkable stuff.

AI is a mess for lots of reasons but I ike how @shanselman calls himself an "ethical AI vegan" in that he never uses it for generating images or video or essays, instead adopting it to automate daunting tasks that would take forever for someone to code by themselves.

I'm getting more into AI for projects like this, things I always wanted to build if I had time to research all the syntax of various programming languages, stuff it can do in mere seconds to produce prototypes and single-user web pages not meant to be massive software platforms.

@cstross I rarely look at Threads but this backstory of a model friend of Melania getting deported by ICE, now with nothing to lose, so she’s naming names crystallized why Melania is trying to deny the truth as it gets out https://www.threads.com/@lavishtantrums/post/DW711k2jFie?xmt=AQF0uhFsXdV1o9yEgtMv0vKX8Kwj6cvRnYFgBWTsXK2Tx2QakUh_l4Hr4i32F4CHPsWd_pgj&slof=1

If you’re wearing the new AirPods and you’ve got the translation stuff turned on, if you walk past a speaker playing Bad Bunny does it try to turn that into an English conversation with you?

First day of the year over 70°F plus tulips at the woodburn farm are peaking. Basically a perfect day.

I heard LEGO will stop printing build manuals and drive people to use their mobile app. I tried it out on the last build and it was… incredible?

Perfect zoomable 3D models of every piece, every change highlighted, no guesswork and with difficult steps you can zoom in to eliminate mistakes

early but strong contender for tweet of the year

I finished the 14hr audiobook of Project Hail Mary over the weekend then caught an early screening last night. The film is good and it covers about 75% of the book’s main points. I’m honestly impressed at how the screenwriters wrote a script that was so similar.

Like the Martian, reading/hearing the book is way nerdier and more dramatic and more fun, but I think the movie will do well.

@evan the prime rib was great, the shrimp and oysters were also top notch

@evan three or four, lost count

Yesterday I did Sunday Brunch at Salty's overlooking the Columbia River and even though food was $90/person it was an insanely fun experience to spend a couple hours inside a timewarp, feeling like I was at a high end casino buffet in 1987. This review nails the vibes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3m0u9H4tCA

It's something I'd suggest anyone only do like once every few years for a special occasion, but damn if it wasn't a fun and delicious morning.

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@daveshea/116161545929547338

Jealous, as always, of friends that live 300 miles north of me on the other side of an imaginary line where local laws seem entirely sane.

I wonder if the military pushed Anthropic so hard to allow autonomous killing with AI so if they say, blew up a school and killed 51 kids, they could blame software and pin it on a Silicon Valley CEO instead of military leaders